Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness